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Procedural Standards, Rules and Guidelines 2.1 - Norway

2.1 Collections Managementclick here to edit data

i. Overall Comments:
One potential activity for the Norwegian Museum Authority (NMA) is to translate the set of fact-sheets from CIDOC concerning registration, labelling and marking objects. However, the NMA is currently working on our own national standards, and may therefore decide not to translate them, but instead include them in our standards as an example of what CIDOC's recommendations are. The NMA is also working on developing standards for condition assessment of objects and photographs.

ii. Collections Management Software in Use:
WinRegimus (commercially available) Primus (in-house product for the time being) Imago (commercially available)

Standard Details
Standard Name:
SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard
Standard Type:
De jure
Number of Museums:
[n/a]
Number of Objects Covered:
[n/a]
Usage by Significant Collections (Institution name(s)):
[n/a]

Standard Details
Standard Name:
Feltkatalog
Standard Type:
De facto
Number of Museums:
An estimated 250 museums use this standard for registration of materials.
Number of Objects Covered:
Unknown.
Usage by Significant Collections (Institution name(s)):
Several, but we do not have data to be able to answer this question. However, the three main database programs for registration of museum objects and collections - WinRegimus, Primus and Imago - all are based on both the registration standard "Feltkatalogen" and the classification system "Outline of Cultural Materials".

Standard Details
Standard Name:
Outline of Cultural Materials
Standard Type:
De facto
Number of Museums:
An estimated 250 museums use this classification standard.
Number of Objects Covered:
Unknown.
Usage by Significant Collections (Institution name(s)):
Several, but we do not have data to be able to answer this question. However, the three main database programs for registration of museum objects and collections - WinRegimus, Primus and Imago - all are based on both the registration standard "Feltkatalogen" and the classification system "Outline of Cultural Materials".

Standard Details
Standard Name:
PRIMUS
Standard Type:
Evolving
Number of Museums:
Currently 5 museums who participate in a collaborative effort to develop this particular database.
Number of Objects Covered:
An estimated 821,293.
Usage by Significant Collections (Institution name(s)):
Norsk Folkemuseum, Norsk Telemuseum (Norwegian Telecom Museum), Norsk Teknisk Museum (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology), Maihaugen De Sandvigske Samlinger and Norsk museum for fotografi-Preus fotomuseum (Norwegian Museum of Photography).

Standard Details
Standard Name:
WinRegimus
Standard Type:
De facto
Number of Museums:
c200
Number of Objects Covered:
Unknown.
Usage by Significant Collections (Institution name(s)):
Several museums.

Standard Details
Standard Name:
Imago
Standard Type:
De facto
Number of Museums:
c12.
Number of Objects Covered:
c70,000.
Usage by Significant Collections (Institution name(s)):
Nasjonalgalleriet, Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), Oslo kommunale kunstsamlinger (Oslo municipal art collections), Munchmuseet, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Srlandets Kunstmuseum.

Submission Details
i. Submitted by: Elin Harriet Wyller
ii. Job title: Head of Documentation section
iii. Organisation: Norwegian Museum Authority
iv. E-mail: elinhw@museumsnett.no
v. Date Submitted: 31/03/2000

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